Store cupboard challenge

zombiecazz

1. Make a big pot of Bean chilli (need to get more beans, some carrots and onions) Have it served with grilled pitta bread firat night and
2. then add the sweetcorn and have it with as enchiladas the second night.
3. Sausage casserole with mashed potato and broccoli and cauliflower (just need potatoes, marg and onions)
4. Mixed grill - use hash browns, eggs, baked beans and buy some lamb grills or burgers to go with it.
5. Potato bake - need potatoes, cabbage, onions, cheese sauce, peas and some kind of meat if you want
6. Spaghetti carbonara - spaghetti, white sauce, bacon (get the bits from Lidl or Tesco) peas.
7. Vegetable broth and home made soda bread - barley, potaotoes, carrots, onion, leek, Flour, bicarb.
8. Baked potatoes with some filling - make your own coleslaw, grate cheese, make tuna mayo.
9. Home made pizza made with a scone base - flour, baking powder, marg, milk, pasta sauce, cheese serve with some of the coleslaw from the night before.
10. Macaroni and cheese - Pasta, Cheese sauce.

well that's me out of ideas. I think that would come well under the £50.

Trinny

Hi There

iF you can get hold of some minced beef -

YOu have chilli, spaghetti bolognaise, enchiladas or fajitas - using the wraps

I would have thought you could also knock up a casserole with the sausages

Also what about some kind of vege meal - veg curry if the kids will eat it

YOu could also make soup - veg or other, Jacket pots with cheese and beans is usually a good standby

Best Wishes

Trin

Butterfly_Brain

Pasta with sausages and brocolli ( If you slice the sausages you will make 8 sausages stretch to two or three meals)
Sausage Toad using the same principle as above
Quesilladas using the wraps
HM pizza if you can make bread or use a scone base
Jacket potatoes
Rice with veg

Frittatta using the eggs and add veg
Vegetable soup

Bubby

Thanks everyone am off to work out my meal plans now:T

Penelope_Penguin

Bubby wrote: »

1 bag of has browns

These will go well with a can of has-beans and a fried egg

I'll get my coat .............

tandraig

one little tip - I buy a whole chicken rather than parts - then i roast it use about half for a roast dinner - freeze the rest - deboned. I can then use it in curries stirfrys etc by adding about twenty minutes before cooking time is up rather than in the begining.
with the store of ingredient you have i would just buy some
minced beef or lamb - great with the tortilla wraps just add the tomatoes and spices
a joint of pork loin - as you could roast it or stir fry it and use the rice to make egg fried rice.
some nice fresh veg - mushrooms, peppers, garlic and potatoes
that would come in at well under £50 and would give hundreds of meal options
and if you dont already have them - get some soy sauce and worcester sauce and maybe a box of chicken oxos.

Penelope_Penguin

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing storecupboard thread where you'll get more support and inspiration :j

Penny. x

Penelope_Penguin

I've just been out to raid my freezer. I've found some chopped mushrroms that I'll add to the chilli that I'm making. I've taken out the last portion of HM pork liver and cranberry pate for my lunch. I also found a HM blackcurrant lolly which I'm having now

Penny. x

CCP

I'm now on to my third day of my March storecupboard challenge and have already managed to use up:

1 pack beef mince
1 carton passata
1 tin kidney beans
1/2 tin anchovies
the end of a jar of chilli flakes (I've got two more full jars )

which gives me two portions of chilli con carne to go back into the freezer

4 snack size sausage rolls
1 bag chicken and veg soup (two lunch-size portions)
a bag of roast chicken meat
1/2 tub creme fraiche

That's not bad for three days' work!

jexygirl

Bit like the store cupboard challenge but on a larger scale!
So a re arrangement /reorganisation of our dry store today pre season madness, revealed things I seriously need to use up - isnt that always the case - the difference being its stock I didnt order so have no idea how to use it, I need to sell it, so whatever I make has to last 3 days, be re heatable preferably in the oven or hob, microwave is a last resort as we only have the one.
I have advance searched previous threads and got a few good ideas, but please dont shout at me pink zips and pp (sorry for making your life harder!) I wanted an easy life with my "I need to use this" all in one place, (I wont be upset if you move my post tho lol!) I am cooking for a restaurant but am not a chef - hence I need help! things on the shelf are not helping to pay my outgoings, so I need to use them depsite not ordering them and inheriting from previous chefs orders! I have pretty much most ingredients at hand, or am willing to buy them to help use up what I have. I have used up alot of things but am stumped with the following...
INDUSTRIAL qunatities of: Cocoa powder 100% . Its expensive and needs using up! dusting hm choccies in it isnt making it go down fast and it was bought by a trial chef and never used. Around 7 litres (its in a tub measiured in litres sorry - the more your recipe suggestion uses the better!
INDUSTRIAL quantities of ground rice - rice pudding sells well, I have yet to find a good one for rice pudding with ground rice that works despite trying once!.
Truffle oil - yep £70 for the 1 litre bottle almost 2 years ago and the chef used a drizzle, its just about still in date and too expensive to waste.
5 bottles of sesame oil - I can use it for sauteed veg but do I have a better option!
Finally a not so old buy... this week i seem to have beggared up order codes and have 15x 2.27kg packs of smoked back bacon. ( I made a suet roll as per the other thread out of one pack!), Any smoked bacon recipes starters or mains appreciated! Especially if they use alot!
Thanks
Jex